The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-04
MORE STRIKES.

Strike Of LonSshorcmen and Coal Handlers
In New York-AbOus Twenty Thousand
Men Involved.
day all the longshorenlcn working by the
hour employed by the National and Cunard
Steamship Companies went on strike.
and on going away for dinner gave no init
nation to their superintendent that they
did not intend to return.
The longshOremen employed by the Ma
tional line struck because the company had
employed Italians TO work in the grain ele-
vator. The grain had been shipped, it was
said, by non-union men.
The trouble on tho Cunard dock was that
the superintendent mad taken some Of the
half time hands and gwen them steady en-
pioyment at the rate Of SIG q week. The
men who worked by the hour said that the
new weekly men would be eventually CON-
PEELED to I.nload the barges, or at least that
an attempt would be made to have them da
30.
The lorgshoremen who work for the Prov
idence line have demanded thirty cents an
hour. They have been getting twenty-five
cents. Some new men were taken and sew
eral policemen were sent to see that they
were not molested. The line employs about
one hundred time men and forty weekly
hands who get s. per day. An effort will
be made to get the weekly men out on a
strike also.
A party Of Poles from Will1esbarre. Pa,
while or their way to Hoboken this morn
ing, to take the Bremen steamship. Travc,
were assaulted by gang of ccal strikers
and three of the party severely injured
one so badly that he may not recover.
They were evidently taken by the strikers
for ''scabs" as the assault was unprOvoked.
The struggle of the striking longshore-
men, that has to certain extent become
merged into that Of the coal handlers, was
transferred to q field of wider proportions
when it became known that the Knights Of
Labor had decided that no coal Of any sort
should be handled in the port of New York
by union men on the ground that all coal in
the harbor now has been put aboard the
bargcs by non-uniOn men. Thus the trans
ferring Of coal to the transatlantic and
,oastwise steamships can not be under
taken by any union man. and the supply Of
coal to consumers in this city, Brooklyn
and other points around the harbor Of New
York can not be replenis,led by union men,
The effect of the carrying out Of the order
of the knights not to load coal became I'M
mediately apparent all along the river front,
all the ocean and coastwise steamship lines,
with few exceptions. suddenly finding
themselves deserted by the union longshore-
men whenever there was coal to be trans
ferred to the vessels. The exceptions were
a few lines which employ their coal shovel
ers by the week.
About thirty longshoremcn employed on
Al Y - Z -
yesterday morning in sympathy with the
other strikers. They were visited by walk
ing delegates. The barge was discharginy
coal at the chute of the Hoboken Ferry
Company, and unless the company receives
a supply of coal In a few days the ferry
GOATS will be obliged to stop running.
Meetings were held by the local assem-
blies III which are the bag sewers, the coal
handlers, grain handlers, caulkcrs, tin
smiths, ship carpenters, pump rgSers, tug
boat deck-hands and engineers, longshore-
men and railroad brakemen, last evening,
and it was decided to quit work for three |
days. The statistician Of District Assem- |
bly, ~ says that there are upward Of 23,0K |
men IN these local assemblies. but they are |
not all employed on the North River front |
His computation is, about Il, 900 men will stok
w
permitted to look after property on the river
'front.' and do such work as is absolutely nee
essary The District Assembly asked that
all Of the 1900 men should remain at THEN
homes until evening, when as many as fell
disposed might attend the meeting in Cooper
Union. The statistician added that the re-
quest OF the executive committee would be
rigidly obeyed. The men had been counse,ec
and would surely refrain from the use OF
violence.
ELECTRIC LIGHT woRKMEN STRIKE.
NEWARK. n. j., Jan. 27-Between three
and five hundred hands employed in the Ed.
son electric works at Harrison struck yes
tcrday because Of the discharge OF one OF
the boys, who, it was discovered, had
broken about 250 of the glass lamps stored
in the building. A committee of the
Knights Of Labor had waited on Superin
.eAdent Upton and demanded the boys re-
and the dismissal of the fore
nan. This was refused and the strike was
ordered. Many Of the hands attempted &c
20 to work this morning, but We're pre-
rented from doing so by the violent actions
If the strikers.
LORILLARD's ULTIMATUM.
JERSEY CITY, n. j., Jan. 27.-P. Lorillard
Z Co., tobacco manufacturers, issued a no
ice to their striking employees last night te
he effect that negotiations for its settle
nent having failed, they propose to wait nc
Onger. In order to give those who wish ar
opportunity, they say, they will retain
places for all who return at any time during
he present week, promising them protec
ion, and that they shall not suffer for hay.
ng taken part in the strike.